Todd's Tech Bite #5 Coach for Success

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Agile Methods #5 Coach for Success

Your Host

Todd W. Ruopp

A speaker, facilitator and coach

who promotes understanding

and integrated teamwork

Co-founder & President of

Unleashing Performance, Inc.™

Todd empowers professionals

to develop the knowledge & ability

to drive personal, professional

and organizational growth.

www.unleashingperformance.com

Today’s Guest

John Goodpasture, PMP

Program manager, system engineer,

author and coach

Managing Principal of

Square Peg Consulting, LLC

John specializes in applying technology

across a broad spectrum to achieve

business goals.

www.sqpegconsulting.com

Author of

Quantitative Methods in Project Management (2003)

John’s new book

• Agile in the enterprise

• Multiple methodologies

thoroughly explained

• From business case

to benefit capture

PUBLISHED BY J. ROSS PUBLISHING

Inspiring Leadership & Flexible Management The customer’s value proposition drives decision making

in short agile cycles that produce incremental results 1 2 3 4 5

Deliver Best Value Deliver the most bang for the buck as measured by the customer

Coach for Success Focus on outcomes not activities, remove barriers to success

and communicate to sponsors and beneficiaries

Deliver Frequently & Incrementally Respect the urgency and importance conveyed by the customer

Recruit Small Teams Recruit 6 to 12 self-managed, performance-oriented team members

Coach for Success

Focus on outcomes not activities,

remove barriers to success and

communicate to sponsors and beneficiaries

What does the agile

project manager

actually do?

Agile project manager

Be chief communicator

Enable tools and training necessary

Keep the project sponsor on-board and the funding approved

Ensure safety all around for everyone involved.

Planning Leave detailed task planning to the teams

Focus on outcomes

Outcomes are the only source of value

Coaching for outcomes is vital

What about the

agile value proposition?

Begin with earned value

Get a dollar’s worth of outcome for a dollar of investment

Vital for the sponsor’s continued support

Benefit realization

Each deliverable has potential benefit

Benefit is not realized until customer pays

and / or

Benefit is realized when the deliverable advantages the customer

Value is realized as

the customer pays

or accumulates an

advantage

2 Project transforms investment

to a more valuable outcome

that advantages the customer

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